British GP: Vote between Lewis Hamilton, Lando Norris and George Russell on who Britain’s best F1 driver is right now | F1 News
Before the British Grand Prix this weekend, we ask you: who is currently the best Formula 1 driver in the country?
This is a subject that was not to be discussed in the last decade and beyond with Lewis Hamilton overlooking sport, but George Russell and Lando Norris are now approaching the bonus of their careers while the seven times world champion approaches his end.
Russell confirmed his pedigree with his performances as a Hamilton teammate from 2022-2024 and only seems to have become the main pilot of Mercedes.
Norris is the best hope of Great Britain for a pilot championship this year and showed its steel as recently last weekend to win a crucial victory for the Austrian Grand Prix.
Hamilton endured a difficult start to life in Ferrari, but what a better opportunity for the 40 -year -old to recall his brilliance than during an event he made his own with nine record victories.
Sky Sports’ Digital journalists explained why each of the trio should be considered the best British. Take our thoughts and then have your word to say by voting below.
The case for George Russell
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George Russell stops Max Verstappen’s position to take the post in Montreal
Forget to be the best Briton in F1 at the moment, George Russell must be considered the pilot currently closest to the correspondence of the sublime standard of Max Verstappen.
He went beyond expectations by going beyond Lewis Hamilton during two of their three seasons as a teammates and absolutely dominated the big one of all time by qualifying during their final campaign together.
Russell seems to have adopted to become the de facto team leader at Mercedes, leading to the absolute maximum of an incoherent car to win a victory and four other podiums in the first 11 laps of the season.
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Protective facts of the Canadian Grand Prix of the Gilles-Villeneuve circuit, Montreal
He continues to experience the nickname “Mr Saturday” which he won during his days Williams, there was little doubt that he was going to invent any occasion that arises to take a pole place or a high grid slit.
But it is a Sunday where he seems to have really developed, with occasional errors or concentration towers seen in the eradicated past, at least to this point.
A Silverstone victory could be exactly what Russell needs to catapult himself in the domestic fame for which he is intended.
The case for Lando Norris
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Lando Norris of McLaren fought the teammate Oscar Piastri to win the victory in the Austrian GP after a battle of any race
If we literally answer the question of “now”, you cannot watch the most recent winner of the F1 race in Lando Norris …
Norris received the best joint note from the second of Sky Sports For the 2024 F1 season alongside Charles Leclerc and behind the world champion Max Verstappen.
The 24 -year -old is widely considered to have undergone a difficult season with a series of errors, especially for qualifying when the pressure is the most important, but is still only 15 points behind the very classified Oscar Piastri.
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Lando Norris takes the post in Monaco with a new anal
Norris’ task to shine against Piastri is much more difficult than that of Russell at Mercedes against Kimi Antonelli. Admittedly, Hamilton has the most difficult work at Ferrari with Leclerc as a teammate, but he could not get closer to the driver of Mongasque.
There is an argument that Norris is the fastest of British drivers. He took the most joint polent positions in 2024 and his racing pace is generally stronger than that of Piastri.
He has a more prudent style of racing than Russell, but always has the punch to go and make great movements, as he did to Imola to spend Piastri and last weekend in Austria to recover the advance of his teammate a few moments after being exceeded.
The case for Lewis Hamilton
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Lewis Hamilton was emotional on team radio after a moving victory at the British Grand Prix 2024
Like the old sentence, the form is temporary, the class is permanent. Thus, even at 40 and being halfway through a difficult first season in Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton should not be easily dismissed in such a debate on the law here and at the moment despite the impressive candidacy in 2025 of his young compatriots.
Of course, there is absolutely no discussion required around who is the most successful driver of the three main British – who is clearly the champion of seven times Hamilton, and always of great margin at the moment as shown in his sparkling CV. Many say that it is not only the statistical goat of F1, but the full point of the goat.
His tête-à -tête with Russell during their last season together in Mercedes, and so far against Charles Leclerc during their first in Ferrari, points in the favors of young pilots (although Hamilton made Pip Russell on points in total during their three seasons as teammates). But Hamilton will be determined to ensure that this recent trend will not become that of the remaining autumn years of his career. And who could say with certainty that it will be?
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Martin Brundle guides you all the best ways to win the British Grand Prix in Silverstone, where Lewis Hamilton last year won a ninth record victory in One Circuit
Don’t these current cars suit him everything he tries? Will the rules of 2026 change to change things in his favor, especially once he is completely installed in Ferrari? Is there still magic in the reserve to unleash if and when the Grands Prix – regular victories, world titles – it was so used to competing before 2022 are realistic again to be won?
Who really knows but, even if he has lost a little rhythm or precision completely compared to his youth – which, frankly, for any driver who rushes in the end of the thirties or quarantine is surely inevitable at some point – as a difficult race showed as Silverstone 2024, you always underestimate Lewis Hamilton at your absolute danger. He was there, did that.
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British Sky Sports F1 GP schedule
Thursday July 3
2 p.m.: Pilot press conference
6 p.m.: The F1 show special
Friday July 4
8:45 am: F3 Practical
9:55 am: F2 Practical
12 noon: British GP Practice One (the session starts at 12:30 p.m.)
1:55 p.m.: F3 Qualification
2:50 p.m.: F2 qualification
3:35 p.m.: British GP Practice two (the session starts at 4 p.m.)
5:15 p.m.: The F1 show
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Return to some of the most dramatic moments over the years at the British Grand Prix
Saturday July 5
9:10 am: Sprint F3
11:15 p.m.: GP British GP Trois (session starts at 11:30 am)
1:10 p.m.: F2 Sprint
2:15 p.m.: British qualification accumulation GP *
3 p.m.: British GP Qualify *
4:55 p.m.: F4 Race 1
5:40 p.m.: Ted qualification notebook
Sunday July 6
8:15 am: F4 Race 2
9:25 am: F3 functionality breed
11 am: F2 Race Feature
1:30 p.m.: Grand Prix Sunday: British GP Build-Up *
3 p.m.: The British Grand Prix *
5 p.m.: Damy flag: British reaction GP *
6 p.m.: Ted * notebook
* Also on the main event of Sky Sports
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